Exhibition Designs

I have been having a play around with possible designs for the exhibiton. I started with this idea;


But after feedback it developed into this;



I am now going to try and create a more 'themed' idea, with some sort of incorporation of three things, one to represent each pathway.

Update

Been very busy these past few weeks with various different things. First of all are the two websites I am working on for the Peacock pub. I have been trying to experiment with my second design more and it hasn't really come out how I intended it to, but I still think it works fairly well.

Alongside this I have been working on the website I made for a family friend's business, this can be found at; http://www.germanauto.co.uk and it is now very close to completion.

I have also been working on my own personal website which I am very happy with so far. It isn't online yet, but it looks like this;

Non Web Designer One

Raf Simons (http://www.rafbyrafsimons.com/)
Raf Simons is a 41 year old fashion designer from Belgium. He is strictly a menswear designer and has his own brand of clothing, Raf by Raf Simons, as well as designing for other companies. I became aware of Raf when he did some work for Fred Perry.

Fred Perry is a clothing brand which I am a massive fan of, I have spent a lot of money on their clothes and own hundreds of items. Raf announced a collaboration with Fred Perry in 2008 and they bought out several garments, primarily knitwear, but also some more casual items. The collaboration was fairly successful, although all the items were priced towards the top end of the market.

Raf primarily appealed to me because he was designing for Fred Perry, but through this collaboration I discovered his other work. Despite the fact I probably wouldn't wear his own personal brand, I still admire the way he has really expressed his own identity through his clothing. After looking more into Raf's work I discovered his website, this also fits in extremely well with his identity as it is based on a white background with very few things shown on the screen at any one time. This works really well and keeps you focused on what is important on each page.

I am influenced by Raf in the way he is able to express himself through his practice. You can really see his identity in the clothes he designs. He keeps them simple and sharp, creating stylish items. I can apply this into websites I create by being very minimal and taking the approach that keeping it simple keeps it effective. I can also be influenced by the way he has used a lot of experimentation during his career, this can easily be done through web design by collaboration with people from different areas of design and multimedia.